Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!acornrc!tekbspa!joe
From: joe@tekbspa.UUCP (Joe Angelo)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: 417K waste of money postings (was: Re: PICNIX V3)
Message-ID: <209@tekbspa.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 06:35:29 GMT
References: <111@pigs.UUCP>
Organization: Teknekron Software Systems, San Jose, CA.
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in article <111@pigs.UUCP>, haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) says:
| fourthly, the cost of acquiring picnix from a public access site is
| minimal.  the transmission costs for this package are approximately
| $4.00 at 2400bps, and right at $9.00 for 1200bps (figures based on
| connection statistics at rpp386)  neither of those amounts are too
| much to expect an individual to pay.

I think a potential answer to unmoderated and moderated newsgroups
lies here... someplace. 

What the net needs is about 5 more uunet.uu.net's to (as one duty) 
continue being major archive sites (for moderated postings) and to
perhaps start being major archive sites for unmoderated postings.
Ie: A posting of large sources to an unmoderated group really gets
archived on a couple of sites and a control message goes out on the
net ... "Blah Blah Blah posted Schmah Schmah Schmah and it's at
here here here as file file file."

Who knows? Who cares?


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